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Harold Naparst:

I updated my Raspberry Pi to 0.2.4.16-rc as Gordon Morehouse suggested. Almost immediately I can see a big difference. I now have 700 inbound connections, 4 outbound, and 14 circuits. Before it was about 150/15/50 or so. The download and upload rates are lower than before, but that might be because I have just restarted with the new version. Any thoughts?

It was somebody else (Nick?) that suggested it to me, but the Pi feels snappier running 0.2.4.x now - 'arm' stutters less when I do fire it up.

I'm also pleased to note that my Pi relay weathered - though did not avoid - its first circuit creation storm last night without crashing. I've attached the last few log entries.[1] The Pi running 0.2.3.x could not have sustained 90 minutes of >10000 circuit creation warnings per log message without crashing, so something improved.

This storm started at about midnight local time and lasted about 90 minutes. The only thing I changed was upgrading to 0.2.4.x latest rc, and I *did* discover that I had MaxAdvertisedBandwidth 200KB already set (contrary to my response earlier to Nick, where I said I wasn't using it because it seemed to be a hacky workaround - which I still believe, but, that's a tangent).

Best, - -Gordon M.

[1] Aug 14 01:20:29.000 [warn] Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit creation requests! Please consider using the MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option or choosing a more restricted exit policy. [10762 similar message(s) suppressed in last 60 seconds] Aug 14 01:21:29.000 [warn] Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit creation requests! Please consider using the MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option or choosing a more restricted exit policy. [12497 similar message(s) suppressed in last 60 seconds] Aug 14 01:22:29.000 [warn] Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit creation requests! Please consider using the MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option or choosing a more restricted exit policy. [12057 similar message(s) suppressed in last 60 seconds] Aug 14 01:23:32.000 [warn] Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit creation requests! Please consider using the MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option or choosing a more restricted exit policy. [8307 similar message(s) suppressed in last 60 seconds] Aug 14 01:56:13.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 1 day 6:00 hours, with 921 circuits open. I've sent 3.32 GB and received 3.78 GB. Aug 14 01:56:13.000 [notice] Average packaged cell fullness: 84.304% Aug 14 01:56:13.000 [notice] TLS write overhead: 9%